kreed@telesys.cts.com (Kevin W. Reed) (09/18/90)
Learn something new everyday...
Just found out that the standard rmail included with SCO Xenix can
only handle one addressee at a time. Thus if you have a message
coming in from another site addressed to two or more users, rmail
errors.
I never noticed this on my system since I've been using smail.
Does someone out there have a wrapper for rmail to help solve this?
I would rather not have to install smail at this remote site, but If
it is the only way to correct this problem...
Thanks in advance...
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PO Box 17821, San Diego, CA 92177 ---------------------- Voice +1 619 270 1338gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (09/22/90)
> Just found out that the standard rmail included with SCO Xenix can > only handle one addressee at a time. Thus if you have a message > coming in from another site addressed to two or more users, rmail > errors. (and drops the mail on the floor...) I pointed this out to SCO years ago. Their response was that it was not a bug so they weren't going to fix it. Please tell them that it has burned you and you wish they'd fix it. It's not like there is a serious problem with fixing it! Here is my message and their response. Note the date in January 1988. John Gilmore gnu@toad.com From: amdcad!sco!rayneb Message-Id: <8801080131.AA27475@amdcad.AMD.COM> To: amdcad!hoptoad!gnu Subject: SCO 2.2 rmail only handles one recipient? Cc: rayneb Date: Thu Jan 7 15:46:36 1988 The problem you have reported is simply a feature that we do not currently have available. It is being considered for inclusion in a future release. Regards, Rayne Bennett Customer Service Representative The Santa Cruz Operation From amdcad!hoptoad!gnu Sun Dec 20 22:42:42 1987 Received: by amdcad.AMD.COM (5.51/2.6) id AA08307; Sun, 20 Dec 87 19:14:49 PST Received: by hop.toad.com id AA10121; Sun, 20 Dec 87 17:36:49 PST Date: Sun, 20 Dec 87 17:36:49 PST From: amdcad!hoptoad!gnu (John Gilmore) Message-Id: <8712210136.AA10121@hop.toad.com> To: amdcad!sco!support Subject: SCO 2.2 rmail only handles one recipient? I took a survey a number of years ago to determine whether it was safe to send mail to uucp neighbor sites by using multiple addresses in the arguments to rmail, as in: uux neighbor!rmail user otheruser forwardto!thirduser At the time, only 4.1BSD sites could not handle multiple recipients on the rmail command line. Since 4.1BSD is essentially dead, modern mail systems using sendmail or smail reduce uucp traffic by sending to multiple recipients with a single command. (Note that sending separate copies to multiple people requires that the entire text of the message be transmitted N times over the phone.) I recently heard from Norm Soley (utzoo!utgpu!sickkids!ontenv!norm) that a neighboring Xenix SCO 2.2 machine also has this problem; it rejects incoming mail if more than one addressee is specified. He had asked the net about how to configure smail to avoid sending to multiple recipients, because his neighbor complained that it didn't work. This is a serious bug, if it is true. It makes it hard for SCO customers to integrate into the uucp network. Can you please check if this is still true in your current release, and fix it if so? John Gilmore -- John Gilmore {sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@toad.com The Gutenberg Bible is printed on hemp (marijuana) paper. So was the July 2, 1776 draft of the Declaration of Independence. Why can't we grow it now?
sl@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) (09/23/90)
In article <12450@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: >> Just found out that the standard rmail included with SCO Xenix can >> only handle one addressee at a time. Thus if you have a message >> coming in from another site addressed to two or more users, rmail >> errors. > >(and drops the mail on the floor...) > >I pointed this out to SCO years ago. Their response was that it was >not a bug so they weren't going to fix it. > >Please tell them that it has burned you and you wish they'd fix it. >It's not like there is a serious problem with fixing it! > Fortunately it's not a huge problem to fix. You simply rename their rmail and create a script something like: : cat > /tmp/rmail$$ for i in $* do rrmail $i < /tmp/rmail$$ done rm /tmp/rmail$$ In cases like this it's sometimes faster to just fix it yourself than trying to get the vendor to do something. To give them credit SCO did listen to our complaints and has given us a much nicer mailer under SCO UNIX. Whether or not we are better off with MMDF is another question..... -- Stuart Lynne Unifax Communications Inc. ...!van-bc!sl 604-937-7532(voice) sl@wimsey.bc.ca